The article highlights several downtown restaurants and stores and suggests using the free trolley and staying in a bed-and-breakfast to save money.

VisitGreenvilleSC said it put together a wish list at the end of 2015 of what it hoped for in 2016, with a spot on The New York Times annual “52 Places to Visit” at the top of the list. This month, that wish came true.

Greenville was highlighted at No.12 as “the next major food destination” and was praised for its “many public artworks along tree lined streets.”

Daniel Scheffler, a freelance journalist who said he visited the area in early 2016, wrote in his introduction that Greenville is “the next Charleston.”

Of the 52 worldwide cities on the list, 42 are international destinations and only 10 are in the U.S. Greenville is the only South Carolina city to make the list.